-osis, -sis, -sia, -sy, -se

1. A sleeplike condition usually induced by another person (or by oneself) in which the subject may experience forgotten or suppressed memories, hallucinations, and heightened suggestibility.
2. An artificially induced altered state of consciousness, characterized by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction.
3. In biology, a state of dormancy in seeds that retain the capacity for normal development.

Hypnosis a practical tool for everyone

Everyone, young and old, in everyday life and on special occasions, can benefit from hypnosis by being fully absorbed and attentive to such a degree that occurrences in the outer environment become less important.

Hypnosis can be used successfully to reduce fears, anxieties, and pain; to overcome undesirable habits; and to pursue self-desired goals. It provides the means to cope with the stresses of the modern world more easily, too.

1. Diffusion of a solvent through a differentially permeable membrane from a region of low solute concentration to one of high solute concentration.
2. The diffusion of pure solvent across a membrane in response to a concentration gradient, usually from a solution of lesser to one of greater solute concentration.
3. The tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane.

A water-soluble protein derivative formed during hydrolytic processes such as digestion that does not coagulate when heated and precipitates if mixed with certain sulfur-containing compounds.

1. Living together, social life.
2. Association of two different organisms (usually two plants, or an animal and a plant) which live attached to each other, or one as a tenant of the other, and contribute to each other’s support.

Also more widely, any intimate association of two or more different organisms, whether mutually beneficial or not.

3. The biological association of two or more species for their mutual benefit.
4. The mutual cooperation or interdependence of two people, as mother and infant, or husband and wife; sometimes used to denote excessive or pathological interdependence of two persons.

Information and several illustrations about symbiosis.